TECHNICAL SCHOOLS.
We have >a shrewd, suspicion that a considerable sum of money i s being squandered annually on the Technical Schools of-this Dominion, particularly in the larger,centres. Huge and expensive staffs are maintained; hundreds of pounds are expended in procuring the most modern laboursaving appliances; boys and girls are taught handicrafts for which they are not- physically fitted; the army of unemployed clerks and typists i s swelled by the imparting of, instruction in subjects for which there is no real demand; free place students are prepared for industries which are fast declining; indeed, the whole system is conducted in a haphazard and extrava. gant manner that has no justification wlniever. Even the control of the white elephants is based upon no defined principle of selection. There is a happy-go-lucky, go-as-ydurpteas 6 air about the whole business which cannot fail to prove disastrous to the Dominion.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 June 1913, Page 4
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147TECHNICAL SCHOOLS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 June 1913, Page 4
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